Windows Azure has added eight new features, including new mobile Services, web site scaling and data sync.

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure File Sync service, used for enabling centralized file shares, has reached 'general availability' status.

Cloud Sync supports many public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, AWS S3, GCP Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

In this second article of a two-part series, Posey finishes up by showing you how to set up the sync task so you can synchronize your data across the two file systems.

Microsoft is seeking testers for its alternative to Amazon's AWS Snowball: Its Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance and service.